Katrin Scholz (born 13 March 1969) is a German classical

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ist.

Life

Born in

Kleinmachnow Kleinmachnow is a municipality of about 20,000 inhabitants in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated South-West of the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf and East of Potsdam. First mentioned in the Landbuch of Karl ...

, Scholz visited the

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. After finishing school she studied at the

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with Werner Scholz and at the conservatory in Bern with

Igor Ozim Igor Ozim (born 9 May 1931) is a Slovenian classical violinist and pedagogue, based in Salzburg, Austria. Career Igor Ozim was born in 1931 in Ljubljana. He came from a musical family: both parents played the piano and his brother the violin. At ...

. Scholz was a soloist with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the

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, the MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken, the

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (''Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin'') is a German symphony orchestra based in Berlin. In Berlin, the orchestra gives concerts at the Konzerthaus Berlin and at the Berliner Philharmonie. The orchestra has also ...

, the

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and the

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. She has worked with the conductors

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, Vladimir Fedosseyev, Gabriel Feltz,

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, Alexander Lazarev,

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, Miguel Gómez- Martínez, Ryosuke Numajiri, Eiji Ōue,

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and

Ulf Schirmer Ulf Schirmer (born 1959) is a German conductor and opera house administrator. Born in Eschenhausen, Lower Saxony, Schirmer studied at the Bremen Conservatory, and also at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, with György Ligeti, Christ ...

. Since 1995 she has also given concerts in double function as conductor and soloist of the

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in European countries as well as in Japan, the US, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. In October 1998, at the age of 29, Katrin Scholz was appointed full professor at the

Hochschule für Künste Bremen The University of the Arts Bremen (German: Hochschule für Künste Bremen, HfK Bremen) is a public university in Bremen, Germany. It is one of the most successful arts institutions, and its origins date back to 1873. The University of the Arts Br ...

Awards

* 1st Prize International Music Competition Japan 1989 * 1st Prize International Violin Competition Cologne 1991

Recordings

* 1995: Show Pieces (Sarasate, Saint-Saens, Chausson), JVC Victor Entertainment * 1995: Brahms: Sonaten 1-3 (Gerald Fauth, Klavier), JVC Victor Entertainment * 1998: Mozart: Violinkonzerte 1–5, 2 Rondi + Adagio, (Kammerorchester Berlin), Berlin Classics / JVC * 1999: Franck/Respighi: Sonaten (Gerald Fauth, Klavier), JVC/WDR * 1999: Spanish Dance (Sarasate, de Falla, Granados, Stschedrin), Gerald Fauth, Klavier, Berlin Classics * 2000: Saint-Saëns, Martinů: Violinkonzerte Nr. 3+2 (Hamburger Symphoniker, Sebastian Lang-Lessing), Berlin Classics * 2003: Haydn: alle Violinkonzerte (Kammerorchester Berlin), Berlin Classics * 2004: Haydn: Doppelkonzert Violine/Cembalo, Abschiedssinfonie, Mozart: Divertimento D, Nachtmusik (Kammerorchester Berlin) Berlin Classics * 2005: Beethoven/Bruch: Violinkonzerte (Kammerorchester Berlin, Michael Sanderling), Berlin Classics * 2007: Brahms/Sibelius: Violinkonzerte (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Kammerorchester Berlin, Michael Sanderling), Berlin Classis / JVC * 2008: Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte 2-5 (Kammerorchester Berlin), JVC / Victor Entertainment

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scholz, Katrin German classical violinists German women violinists 1969 births Living people People from Potsdam-Mittelmark